{"id":1001,"date":"2021-09-04T18:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/?page_id=1001"},"modified":"2023-10-03T21:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T01:52:35","slug":"chinyere-okafor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/chinyere-okafor\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinyere Okafor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container chinyere-okafor autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-2549\" data-slideshow-name=\"chinyere-okafor\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-2549\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-2549_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/womenandmasks\/files\/2021\/09\/chinyere-scaled-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-2549\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dr. Chinyere G. Okafor<\/strong> is a Professor of English and Women\u2019s Studies, chair of Women\u2019s Studies, and Director of the Center for Women\u2019s Studies at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Her degrees in English, Theater, and African Studies, culminating in her postdoctoral at Cornell University on the poetics and politics of gender, inform her research on African masking. Her research on masking is interdisciplinary intersecting African orature, feminist and cultural studies with the organizing principle of masking as art in performance. She has numerous journal articles and edited volumes, including seven on African masking. She has authored eight books, including two on masking:\u00a0 Gender, Performance, and Communication \u2013 African Ikeji Mask Festivals Aro and Diaspora (2017) and Ikeji Festival Theater of the Aro and Diaspora: Gender, Mask, and Communication (2015).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Chinyere G. Okafor, Ph.D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chair, Department of Women\u2019s Studies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director, Center for Women\u2019s Studies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wichita State University, Wichita, KS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soar.wichita.edu\/handle\/10057\/1222\">https:\/\/soar.wichita.edu\/handle\/10057\/1222<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chinyere G. Okafor is a Professor of English and Women\u2019s Studies, chair of Women\u2019s Studies, and Director of the Center for Women\u2019s Studies at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Her degrees in English, Theater, and African Studies, culminating in her postdoctoral at Cornell University on the poetics and politics of gender, inform her research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15090,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2786,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}